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RF Micro Devices is planning a new assault on the CDMA RF front-end chipset market.
This will be the chip supplier’s first new products aimed at CDMA handsets in around five years.
“CDMA handsets totalled approximately 170 million units in 2008 and continue to represent a large segment of the overall handset market,” said Eric Creviston, president of RFMD's Cellular Products Group.
“We expect our CDMA product refresh will extend our reach to new customers and new design teams and expand our total available market by approximately 150 million units in calendar year 2009,” said Creviston.
The CDMA front-end products to appear this year will include the RF73xx family of linear CDMA PAs, the RF1126 and RF1136 discrete switches and the RF2815 GPS LNA module with integrated surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter, designed for GPS-enabled CDMA mobile devices.
The chips, said RFMD, are compatible with commercially available CDMA baseband chips and cover all high-volume CDMA frequency bands.
For example, the RF73xx family consists of three single-band PA modules covering the cellular, PCS and AWS bands as well as a dual-band PA that combines the cellular and PCS bands.
The RF2815 integrates a low noise-figure LNA, SAW filter and supporting components in a 3.3x2.1x1.0mm module.